02 August 2017

Confronting one's fears

"In this documentary short titled Ten Meter Tower, Swedish filmmakers
Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson paid 67 people $30 to climb
to the top of a ten meter (33 foot) high dive for the very first time
all while being filmed. Would they decide to jump? Would they be too
scared? The resulting footage is surprisingly riveting as people slowly
come to terms with their fears and make a decision. It’s one thing to
admit defeat in private, but adding the cameras must add a near
insurmountable amount of pressure."

We have an "Olympic" pool near my home with a 30 meter board. When I was around 12 years old, my friends and I went and they dared me to jump. So up I went. I stood up there long enough for a lot of people to notice, and so the entire pool started cheering and/or taunting me to jump. After much worry, I did jump. It was exhilarating.

Right after me, some diver dude went up there and did some kind of fancy, twisty sort of dive. Sort of stole my thunder a bit. ;)

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